All I want for Christmas is…to educate people about whether their holiday decorations are poisonous or not. Can you eat a poinsettia salad? Should you really be open-mouth kissing under the mistletoe? Which holly tea is my favorite? (Maybe they’re actually just venomous 😉)

Reminder that the head of the NIH is an economist who has never conducted NIH-funded research, spent years doing paid speaking engagements for far-right extremist groups, & is best known for a study where he committed serious ethical violations & ended up wrong by greater than an order of magnitude.

I wouldn't describe Jay as "man in the middle" unless I were making sort of human centipede analogy.

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

Goes without saying that anyone using "purity test" as a slur or an insult is just outright saying that they don't care about whether or not minorities have rights

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

Anyway, curious what possible rationale the DOJ could have for redacting those sections saying that Epstein paid off witnesses to their "criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct," threatened harm, to "release damaging stories about them," and telling them to "destroy evidence."

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

In this AI video, which uses a distinctive font, Trump drives Santa’s sleigh over the ocean where the reindeer emit turds that turn into bombs that blow up boats.

Republicans are literally putting criminal men into women’s bathrooms

surely the women's bathroom is a sacred space ive been told by conservatives

Bill Clinton just called on Trump to release the full Epstein Files, including all documents mentioning both Trump and Clinton. “Refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion the DOJ’s actions to date are not about transparency, but about insinuation.”

It would be great if people could stop referring to Bari Weiss as “Editor-In-Chief” and start referring to her as “Trump-selected EIC with zero journalism experience” etc. Stop legitimizing these people’s fake and undeserved titles.

Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus. Weiss; What did the driver say. Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times. Weiss: I’m killing your story.

Bari Weiss this morning on the 60 Minutes segment: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera." Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.

But why has nobody asked Pennywise for his side of the story?

"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."

ICE is obstructing criminal prosecution of sex crimes against children

Good god lmao

Periodic reminder of the foods my microbiology professor warned us to not eat, or at least be vigilant about: - produce that’s too delicate to be decently cleaned without ruining it (sprouts, raspberries, similar) - produce with knobby texture that can hold bacteria (cantaloupe!)

It shouldn’t be possible but these people are more delusional about windmills than Don Quixote

This is so ridiculous, even for this absurd administration.

Maybe they mean “breakdown” in a good way like a dance song

Counterpoint: You can get more cash than this if you just find her unattended purse at a restaurant

FYI, if you're outside the US, you can come here and just collect $3,000

It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months. It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

The “America” they want to bring back again is literally pre-1860s, complete with the old-timey racism, misogyny, diseases, and GDP. Expect the quality of life to follow.

Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Eddie” catches his breath before resuming leek harvesting with December temperatures still reaching into the 80s in the Central Coast. #WeFeedYou

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note “It is factually correct.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

wow that’s crazy bari weiss ended up being shitty at her job

Same and that’s really, really sad

Bari Weiss destroyed 60 Minutes to serve a pedophile.

Bari Weiss and RFK Jr are exactly who we said they were.

Bari Weiss is censoring news to make Trump happy.

Bari Weiss is even more hamhanded than I imagined her to be. Gift link:

Puck news confirming exactly what we all assume happened at CBS News(max) — Bari Weiss happened

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

CBS News(max) is officially cooked. Bari Weiss killed a whole-ass network.

Trump and DOGE gutted US science: Scientists from a variety of fields researching anything from chemical hazards, drug addiction, pollution, LBTQ health care & paediatric brain disease report how grants were withdrawn and and they struggle to support students, staff and research 🧪

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->> www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is important because Abrego prosecutor, US Atty McGuire, has been arguing that any vindictiveness by Trump or his political apptees, like DAG Blanche, doesn't matter, because McGuire alone made the decision to prosecute & McGuire was not vindictive. Judge Crenshaw doesn't seem to be buying it.